Painting-machine



(No Model,)

H. P. DUGAN;

PAINTING MACHINE. No. 387,346, Patented Aug. 7, 1888.

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PATENT PAINTING MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 387,346, dated August7, 1888.

(No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HUGH P. DUGAN, a citizen of the United States,residing at Mound City, in the county ofLinn and State of Kansas, haveinvented new and useful Improvements in Paintingddachines, of which thefollowing is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in painting-machines, and hasespecial reference to improvements on the machine for which LettersPatent No. 371,984c were granted to P. H. Shine on October 25, 1887; andit consists in certain novel features hereinafter described and claimed.

In the drawings, Figure 1 represents a perspective view of the device inoperation. Fig. 2 is a rear view of the same.

Referring to the drawings by letter, A designates the casing of thedevice, having the paint well or chamber A and the back B, which isextended upwardly, as shown, and provided with the similar verticalslots 0 0,. equally distant from its ends. The said paint well orchamber is provided with side guards, and has the upwardly and outwardlyand transversely curved hand-guard!) extending its entire length andformedon its upper edge.

D is alongitudinal handle,by means ofwhich the device is held and movedalong the wire that is being painted.

E E are the cylindrical brushes, having their central pivotal shafts, c6, respectively journaled in bearings made at proper points in the frontand back walls of the paintwell. The lower cylindrical brushes, E, turnwith their edges in the paintwell. The upper cylindrical brushes, E, arenot paint-feeding brushes, but are merely distributers,which receive thepaint from the brushes E and distribute it over the Wire.

F F are rollers, each having a concave face and journaled upon a bar, G,the inner end of which is tapped and bolted to the back plate of thepaint-well. The rollers F are situated at corresponding points near theends of the frame and above the level of the meetingpoints of therollers E E, so that the wire from the roller F will be drawn up againstthe brushes and have the paint thereon brought into continued andintimate contact with it. The wire passes down and over the roller F,

then between the brushes E and E, and thence up and over the rollerF.The upper or dis tributing rollers, E, are journaled on shafts e, thatpass through the vertical slots 0 in the back plate of the paint-well.The said shafts have their inner ends secured by tapped ends and nutsthereon to the vertical bars G G. Each of said. bars moves inagn'ide-loop, g, on the back of the paint-well.

H H are re-enforcing strips of metal on the back of the paint-well,giving a larger and stronger support to the journals of the wheels E I.

The bars G are provided near their lower ends with the vertical slots I,through which pass the tapped end of the corresponding axles or shafts,e, and have on the said tapped ends, for the purpose of verticaladjustment, the nuts i.

By having the distributing cylinder brushes E aligned diametrically withthe feeding-rollers F F the wire passing over said roller goes downunder the brushes E and between the brushes E and the brushes E. Thelatter brushes turn in the paint box and are feeding brushes, while thebrushes E are distributing brushes, and the adjustment upward ordownward thereof regulates the deepness or lightness of the shade ofcolor.

It will be observed that there are no brackets or angleplates at the topof my machine passing over the upper brushes. This feature of my deviceis especially advantageous, as it enables me to paint the wire and theretaining-staples where the wire crosses the posts without necessitatingthe use of a separate hand paint-brush. Were the upper wheels carried bystandards, the said standards would prevent the upper brushes beingbrought into contact with the staples and the wire crossing the post, aswill be readily understood. The painting of the staples is accomplish edby tilt ing the machine so that the tops of the upper brushes will bebrought into contact with the wire and the staples, and in order toprevent this tilting of the machine causing a spilling of the paint Ihave extended the back of the machine up above the journals of the upperrollers and support said rollers by said back. This extended back,therefore, accomplishes the double purpose of dispensing with thestandards before referred to, and also preventl ing having a paint-welland an extended back :ing the spilling of the paint. Furthermore, as theextended back is larger and stronger than a standard, I can use more andlarger rollers, thereby accomplishing a more equable application of thepaint to the wire.

Having described my invention, I claim 1. The combination of the casingcontaining the paint well or chamber and having a vertically-extendedback provided with slots 0, the lower brushes having fixed bearings inthe casing and arranged within the paint-well, the upper brushes havingtheir-journals extending through the slots 0, and the vertically-adjustable bars mounted on the back of the casing and secured to the journalsof the upper rollers, as set forth.

2. Thepainting-machine comprisingthe cashaving vertical slots 0, andprovided on its front side at its upper edge with an outwardly-curved.longitudinal guard, b, the lower brushes arranged in the paint-well theupper brushes having their journals extending through the slots 0, andthe vertically-adjustable bars mounted on the back of the casing andhaving their upper ends secured to the journals of the upper brushes, asspecified.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto affixedmy signature in presence of two witnesses.

HUGH P. DUGAN.

Witnesses:

HOWARD T. SMITH, BOND HUGHERS.

